Uña y Carne
New York City, New York | Film Short
Adventure, LGBTQ
1809. The Viceroyalty of New Spain. Two rebels are held prisoner in an abandoned homestead while a fierce storm rages outside. The night wears on and power shifts between the rebels and one of their captors as memory, community, and love become weapons in a battle for desire, power, and freedom.
Uña y Carne
New York City, New York | Film Short
Adventure, LGBTQ
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1809. The Viceroyalty of New Spain. Two rebels are held prisoner in an abandoned homestead while a fierce storm rages outside. The night wears on and power shifts between the rebels and one of their captors as memory, community, and love become weapons in a battle for desire, power, and freedom.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Ignacia and Ren, two freedom fighters travel the Royalist-ravaged countryside to spark rebellion against the Spanish Crown when they're captured by a pair of bounty hunters – one their former comrade and ex-lover Vidal, now seeking her own fortune. When Vidal and her partner try to hole up with their captives in a deserted home during a storm, Nacia and Ren have one night to plan their escape before their old friend turns them over to an inevitable death sentence.
As the night wears on, the once-allies slowly reconnect, triggering a tense interplay between them as they each angle towards their goals, dancing across languages and around the vulnerable spots in their shared memory. Ultimately, all three must make a choice between love, the dream of revolution, and the promise of personal liberty.
Uña y Carne is lyrical. Devised over the course of years of collaborative play, carefully researched and rehearsed by its creative team to wring layers from every line and verbal sparring match. Its themes of culture clash, duality, and transition are underscored by a script that hopscotches between English and Spanish language, developed by its bilingual cast.
Uña y Carne is brutal. A story is shaped around an exploration of the brutality within love, sensuality within bloodshed, and the waltz of power that’s as present in sex and love as it is in politics and war. To that end, it spotlights the potent connection between onscreen intimacy work and action / fight choreography.
Most of all, Uña y Carne is subversive – not a subversion of history but of the way it's usually told. It is a story of manifestly queer, hungry, violent, and influential women set against the torrid backdrop of the Age of Revolution. A story that lies in the margins of the past, waiting to be illuminated.
We are lucky enough to be partnering with the prestigious Catwalk Art Residency to film at their Carriage House location on their campus in the Hudson Valley. Catwalk, a gorgeous 70-acre property dating back to the 19th Century, has hosted hundreds of artists for residencies over the years - and now generously provides their wooded grounds as the scene for our film. This rustic and secluded space is a perfect evocation of the past, and we are eager to transform it into 1800s South America.
We hope our film will spotlight the natural beauty of Catwalk and the Hudson Valley as well as the compassion and joy of the region's people, creating opportunities and collaborations for members of the community.
We are working towards a monetary goal of $20,000 in order to fund this project. The chart below demonstrates our budget allocation, including paying our Crew, getting the best Equipment, and Production Costs to create the vivid and immersive world of 19th Century Latin America in the Catskills. Above all, we are committed to paying our collaborators a fair wage - and with your help, we can reach that goal!
Any funds raised over this goal will go toward increased wages for our stellar crew.
Help us bring this story to life! We are devoted to making a rare queer and Latin entry into the canon of historical fiction, and we need you to make it possible. How?
- Pledge: Any amount - big or small - is a huge help towards out goals
- Share: Tell your friends, family, enemies, post it on your socials and help spread the word
- Follow: keep up to date on all of our adventures on @2TAcreative
If you would like to contact us, please reach out to [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you!
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Crew's Living Wages
Costs $4,000
Cinematographer, Camera Assistant, Key Grip, Gaffer, Assistant Director, Wardrobe, Hair and Makeup
Post Production
Costs $4,600
A good editor to polish the cut, sound, and color of the film
Wardrobe
Costs $500
Period Costumes
Production Design
Costs $500
A budget to transport our space back to the 1800s
Sound
Costs $1,000
The best movie in the world falls apart without good sound
Stunt Coordinator
Costs $400
Someone to craft fights that highlight the brutality and the intimacy of violence
Gear Rental
Costs $4,000
Lights and cameras, everything we need to bring this vision to life
Production
Costs $4,000
Van Rentals, Gas, Transportation Reimbursement, Contingencies
Catering and Craft Services
Costs $1,000
A fed crew is a happy crew
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
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About This Team
Andrea Lopez Alvarez (she/her) Actor, Producer, Editor, Co-Translator
Andrea is a Puerto Rican actress and filmmaker who has appeared on stages in New York City, London, and Puerto Rico, playing a wide assortment of roles from classical to surrealist and all the fun things in between. Favorite credits include Initiative (The Public), A Ribbon About a Bomb (Exquisite Corpse Company), and Echo (The Tank). As a filmmaker, her film The Surrealists won her a New York City Artist Corp Grant and has been screened in New York, Puerto Rico, and San Francisco. She has also conceived and directed a variety of short films that have been screened at festivals all around the world. www.alopez.me
Matt Minnicino (he/him) Writer, Producer
Matt is a queer Jewish storyteller, teacher, and filmmaker. His work for the stage has been developed across the US and in England and Ireland, and has garnered numerous awards and residencies, notably the Arts & Letters Prize, David Einhorn Playwriting Prize, residencies with Pipeline Theatre and Fresh Ground Pepper, and nominations for the Helen Hayes Award for Best Adaptation and Jeffrey Melnick New Playwright Award. He has generated texts for dance, radio, performance art, museum tours, lectures, and several of his plays are taught in college curricula. He co-founded the COVID-era initiative Theatre Without Theater and has written essays for The Dramatist, HowlRound, and others. He has developed screenplays for Cute Lil Risk, Bicephaly Pictures, Wild Obscura, Little Crush, Maid & Prince, and others, as well as written and directed several independent shorts which have been selected for 15+ film festivals in the US and Europe. @minnicino. www.mattminnicino.com
Susana Montoya-Quinchia (she/her) Actor, Producer, Co-Director, Translator
Susana, born in Medellin, Colombia and raised in Chicago, is a film director, stunt performer, actress, and fight director. Her most recent directing credit, Suficiente, has been screened at the Georgia Latino International Film Festival, The Seattle Film Festival, and has won The US-Mexico Bicentennial Kaleidoscope, having been screened in Washington DC, Los Angeles, The Sidney Poitier New American Film School at Arizona State University, and The Guadalajara Film Festival. Susana has been most recently seen as a stunt performer on the latest season of FBI, American Horror Story, FBI Most Wanted, and Law and Order: Organized Crime. Susana studied drama at the American Music and Dramatics Academy.
Cristina (Cha) Ramos (she/ella) Actor, Producer, Co-Translator
Cha is a Cuban-American, bilingual and bisexual, Drama Desk Award winning fight director, industry leading intimacy director, dramaturg, writer, and performer based in NYC. She primarily works in live performance, and holds a BA in Anthropology and an MFA in Theatre from Columbia University. Notable credits include: fight direction for Death Becomes Her (Broadway), Water for Elephants (Broadway, Alliance Theatre); intimacy direction for &Juliet (Broadway, North American National Tour); associate intimacy direction for Company and Jagged Little Pill (Broadway); dramaturgy for new works by José Rivera and Leslie Ayvazian; performing with the Vixens En Garde all-female sword-fighting Shakespeare comedy troupe; and ongoing development of her three original plays. She has contributed to multiple books, been interviewed for the New Yorker and HowlRound, and joined panels for BroadwayCon, the global EPIC conference, and more. www.CallMeCha.com
(original logo / thumbnail art by Eli Lynn @everinmotley)
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Ignacia and Ren, two freedom fighters travel the Royalist-ravaged countryside to spark rebellion against the Spanish Crown when they're captured by a pair of bounty hunters – one their former comrade and ex-lover Vidal, now seeking her own fortune. When Vidal and her partner try to hole up with their captives in a deserted home during a storm, Nacia and Ren have one night to plan their escape before their old friend turns them over to an inevitable death sentence.
As the night wears on, the once-allies slowly reconnect, triggering a tense interplay between them as they each angle towards their goals, dancing across languages and around the vulnerable spots in their shared memory. Ultimately, all three must make a choice between love, the dream of revolution, and the promise of personal liberty.
Uña y Carne is lyrical. Devised over the course of years of collaborative play, carefully researched and rehearsed by its creative team to wring layers from every line and verbal sparring match. Its themes of culture clash, duality, and transition are underscored by a script that hopscotches between English and Spanish language, developed by its bilingual cast.
Uña y Carne is brutal. A story is shaped around an exploration of the brutality within love, sensuality within bloodshed, and the waltz of power that’s as present in sex and love as it is in politics and war. To that end, it spotlights the potent connection between onscreen intimacy work and action / fight choreography.
Most of all, Uña y Carne is subversive – not a subversion of history but of the way it's usually told. It is a story of manifestly queer, hungry, violent, and influential women set against the torrid backdrop of the Age of Revolution. A story that lies in the margins of the past, waiting to be illuminated.
We are lucky enough to be partnering with the prestigious Catwalk Art Residency to film at their Carriage House location on their campus in the Hudson Valley. Catwalk, a gorgeous 70-acre property dating back to the 19th Century, has hosted hundreds of artists for residencies over the years - and now generously provides their wooded grounds as the scene for our film. This rustic and secluded space is a perfect evocation of the past, and we are eager to transform it into 1800s South America.
We hope our film will spotlight the natural beauty of Catwalk and the Hudson Valley as well as the compassion and joy of the region's people, creating opportunities and collaborations for members of the community.
We are working towards a monetary goal of $20,000 in order to fund this project. The chart below demonstrates our budget allocation, including paying our Crew, getting the best Equipment, and Production Costs to create the vivid and immersive world of 19th Century Latin America in the Catskills. Above all, we are committed to paying our collaborators a fair wage - and with your help, we can reach that goal!
Any funds raised over this goal will go toward increased wages for our stellar crew.
Help us bring this story to life! We are devoted to making a rare queer and Latin entry into the canon of historical fiction, and we need you to make it possible. How?
- Pledge: Any amount - big or small - is a huge help towards out goals
- Share: Tell your friends, family, enemies, post it on your socials and help spread the word
- Follow: keep up to date on all of our adventures on @2TAcreative
If you would like to contact us, please reach out to [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you!
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Crew's Living Wages
Costs $4,000
Cinematographer, Camera Assistant, Key Grip, Gaffer, Assistant Director, Wardrobe, Hair and Makeup
Post Production
Costs $4,600
A good editor to polish the cut, sound, and color of the film
Wardrobe
Costs $500
Period Costumes
Production Design
Costs $500
A budget to transport our space back to the 1800s
Sound
Costs $1,000
The best movie in the world falls apart without good sound
Stunt Coordinator
Costs $400
Someone to craft fights that highlight the brutality and the intimacy of violence
Gear Rental
Costs $4,000
Lights and cameras, everything we need to bring this vision to life
Production
Costs $4,000
Van Rentals, Gas, Transportation Reimbursement, Contingencies
Catering and Craft Services
Costs $1,000
A fed crew is a happy crew
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Andrea Lopez Alvarez (she/her) Actor, Producer, Editor, Co-Translator
Andrea is a Puerto Rican actress and filmmaker who has appeared on stages in New York City, London, and Puerto Rico, playing a wide assortment of roles from classical to surrealist and all the fun things in between. Favorite credits include Initiative (The Public), A Ribbon About a Bomb (Exquisite Corpse Company), and Echo (The Tank). As a filmmaker, her film The Surrealists won her a New York City Artist Corp Grant and has been screened in New York, Puerto Rico, and San Francisco. She has also conceived and directed a variety of short films that have been screened at festivals all around the world. www.alopez.me
Matt Minnicino (he/him) Writer, Producer
Matt is a queer Jewish storyteller, teacher, and filmmaker. His work for the stage has been developed across the US and in England and Ireland, and has garnered numerous awards and residencies, notably the Arts & Letters Prize, David Einhorn Playwriting Prize, residencies with Pipeline Theatre and Fresh Ground Pepper, and nominations for the Helen Hayes Award for Best Adaptation and Jeffrey Melnick New Playwright Award. He has generated texts for dance, radio, performance art, museum tours, lectures, and several of his plays are taught in college curricula. He co-founded the COVID-era initiative Theatre Without Theater and has written essays for The Dramatist, HowlRound, and others. He has developed screenplays for Cute Lil Risk, Bicephaly Pictures, Wild Obscura, Little Crush, Maid & Prince, and others, as well as written and directed several independent shorts which have been selected for 15+ film festivals in the US and Europe. @minnicino. www.mattminnicino.com
Susana Montoya-Quinchia (she/her) Actor, Producer, Co-Director, Translator
Susana, born in Medellin, Colombia and raised in Chicago, is a film director, stunt performer, actress, and fight director. Her most recent directing credit, Suficiente, has been screened at the Georgia Latino International Film Festival, The Seattle Film Festival, and has won The US-Mexico Bicentennial Kaleidoscope, having been screened in Washington DC, Los Angeles, The Sidney Poitier New American Film School at Arizona State University, and The Guadalajara Film Festival. Susana has been most recently seen as a stunt performer on the latest season of FBI, American Horror Story, FBI Most Wanted, and Law and Order: Organized Crime. Susana studied drama at the American Music and Dramatics Academy.
Cristina (Cha) Ramos (she/ella) Actor, Producer, Co-Translator
Cha is a Cuban-American, bilingual and bisexual, Drama Desk Award winning fight director, industry leading intimacy director, dramaturg, writer, and performer based in NYC. She primarily works in live performance, and holds a BA in Anthropology and an MFA in Theatre from Columbia University. Notable credits include: fight direction for Death Becomes Her (Broadway), Water for Elephants (Broadway, Alliance Theatre); intimacy direction for &Juliet (Broadway, North American National Tour); associate intimacy direction for Company and Jagged Little Pill (Broadway); dramaturgy for new works by José Rivera and Leslie Ayvazian; performing with the Vixens En Garde all-female sword-fighting Shakespeare comedy troupe; and ongoing development of her three original plays. She has contributed to multiple books, been interviewed for the New Yorker and HowlRound, and joined panels for BroadwayCon, the global EPIC conference, and more. www.CallMeCha.com
(original logo / thumbnail art by Eli Lynn @everinmotley)